Jacques Coursil

"Clameurs",Sunnyside records

Track list :

1.Prologue/Paroles Nues

2.Monchoachi, WéLéLé Nou (Nos Clameurs)

3.Frantz Fanon 1952

4.La Chanson D'Antar

5.Edouard Glissant, L'Archipel Des Grands Chaos 'La Traite'

6.Edouard Glissant, L'Archipel Des Grands Chaos 'Les Iles'

7.Epilogue/Cadences De Chaînes

The four oratorios for trumpet and voice that make up CLAMEURS restore the world-cry of four poets in their own tongues, Creole, French and Arabic. But this clamor is neither a lament nor hatred. The trumpet hears and breathes naked words. It is a mouth-drum, the instrument of appeal.

"In this world where things hurt," wrote Frantz Fanon, "truth has no need to be flung in men's faces."

It has to be sought out and sung: its place is in music.(...more)

links :

• Works by Frantz Fanon

1. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove, 1967. Reprint of Peau noire, masques blancs. Paris, 1952.
2. Studies in a Dying Colonialism, or A Dying Colonialism. New York, 1965. Reprint of L'an cinq de la revolution algerienne. Paris, 1959.
3. The Wretched of the Earth. New York, 1965. Reprint of Les damnes de la terre. Paris, 1961. Short Extract
4. Toward the African Revolution. New York, 1967. Reprint of Pour la revolution africaine. Paris, 1964.

The most wanted man in Algeria, Ali La Point, and his closest supporters, including a woman and a child, are cornered in their hiding place by an overwhelming number of French troops and ordered to surrender or die...

• La Battaglia di Algeri directed by Gillo Pontecorvo

One of the most powerful films about colonial occupation, and resistance to it, ever made.